1) For the blog during Week 5, it was instructed for us to choose a poem and record ourselves teaching the poem how it should be taught originally, then following up by putting Ta's and Ti-Ti's in the rhythm's place. **I recorded and posted my Micro-Teach lesson late before viewing this video in order to complete this assignment. I chose the poem "Here Come the Pretty Ladies".
2.) I noticed that when I did the original poem, it seemed that I had the beats and the rests correct. Mine was just a little slower paced than Chris's.
3.) I was completely right about everything on the Ta's and Ti-Ti's of the poem, except for the rests. I should have thought about it more thoroughly and realized that there were rests involved in the second and fourth lines of the poem.
4.) If I were to have the chance to re-do the assignment, I would make sure to write down my Ta's and Ti-Ti's and rests and think harder about where each would go.
I would also try to complete my assignments earlier so that I am not stuck in a bind as I was this past week and have my overall grade penalized.
5.) Throughout this lesson, I learned that rests should definitely be considered when interpreting poems such as this one.
